Yogi Bear and Thing 9
The first online image generator I tried was the Comic Strip Generator. What a great site, my favorite technology for the classroom so far. I tried several cartoons, TV actors and historical figures. Below are some of my favorite creations. I thing this would be a great fun activity for the classroom. Students could take a figure from history and make a cartoon from it after a Social Studies lesson, or summarize their learning (as a exit card) from a science lesson using a dolphin or panther. I used a picture I took this last summer while in Hawaii (the Big Island) of a sea turtle swimming ashore on a black sand beach. I used several step to get the picture down to size (the jpeg file was too large. The max size for a .jpeg file to use this program is 975 KB and my file was 1,617 KB. I took a screen capture and cropped out some unnecessarily scenery. Then I saved new image but lower the quality of the image using the Preview program on my Mac).
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Next I tried the Sign Generator and again have listed some of my favorites below. I was not as thrilled with this image generator. I thought of signs I could make at the beginning of the school year and thought of making a couple of signs to insert into PowerPoint presentation. Perhaps I could use this as a fun activity for students who finished working on a lesson or project ahead of the other students.
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I also played around with the Happy Face Generator. I made several and thought of making personalized smiley face notes to student (print off and attach to an assignment). For students they could insert into a PowerPoint, but I think I would save this for students who finished an assignment early as a fun reward.
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And finally I tried the Image Chef which was my least favorite of the four I tried. Again, for students, something fun for when work is done.
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